Re: basic installation on 7200/75 (sucess)
morten wrote:
>
> On 29-May-2001 Adam Goode wrote:
> > On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 05:58:07AM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote:
> >> On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 03:38:03PM +0200, morten wrote:
> >> > There are, of course, another problem...
> >> > I do dhcp to get the ip adress, and that works, but when it has gotten
> >> > its IP
> >> > adress it stops communicating with the outside world. I have to set the
> >> > promisc
> >> > mode and tried changing media 100base2 and 10base2, but that was not
> >> > it.
> >>
> >> i don't know about this, sounds like the crappy ethernet chips used in
> >> these machines.
> >
> > Indeed it is! And the result is that "pump" kills your connection. Try
> > setting up a static IP address during the install, then switching to
> > dhcp-client later.
> >
> I have installed potato enough to boot from hte hdd. So I am modifying the
> config files directly, and I thought I would add a net driver in the
> modules.conf - with the proper parameter of course.
> Are you suggesting that I remove eth0 completely and afterwards I install
> eth0 manually with a staic IP?
editor /etc/network/interfaces
I have here for eth0:
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 10.0.1.6
netmask 255.255.255.0
network 10.0.1.0
broadcast 10.0.1.255
gateway 10.0.1.1
When you have configured it for your needs, run
/etc/init.d/networking restart
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